Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species III (2024)
2024-06-29..2024-06-30
Berkeley, United States
who it's for
animal communication researchers, bioacoustics researchers, machine learning researchers, conservation practitioners, field biologists, computational ethologists, ai interpretability researchers
topics
three-hydrophone array recordings; energy-based whistle contour extraction; cnn-based whistle classification; dynamic time warping clustering; markov-network social analysis; variable-length Markov trees for codas; coda vowel formant analysis; gan-based language learners; emergent communication codebook modules; zero-shot compositional generalization; multispecies re-identification embeddings; permutation-invariant graph foundation models
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Whistle variability and social acoustic interactions in bottlenose dolphins | Chiara Semenzin | 56m |
Semi-captive recordings from Dolphin Reef use a three-hydrophone array plus cameras and an energy-based contour extractor to pull 8,566 whistles (2019 subset)… | ||
| Symbolic behavior in AI: some possible lessons for whales? | Andrew Lampinen | 58m |
Argues symbols are conventions whose presence is best judged by behavior, not labels, and lays out six behavioral criteria—receptive, constructive, embedded… | ||
| There is no such thing as AGI: Understanding multiple intelligences across evolution and development | Alison Gopnik | 01h 01m |
Argues against a single AGI by showing concrete, cross‑species evidence for incompatible cognitive goals: explore–exploit–care trade‑off (juvenile rats and… | ||
| Interpreting Emergent Communication | Yonatan Belinkov | 49m |
Describes an emergent-communication pipeline that inserts a codebook discrete module between sender and receiver, uses bipartite matching to map symbols to… | ||
| Faces, Flukes, Fins, and Flanks: How Multispecies Re-ID Models are Transforming Our Approach to AI.. | Jason Holmberg, Lasha Otarashvili | 59m |
Wildbook deploys production pipelines that already support ~1,900 field biologists tracking just over 221,000 individuals from >1,000,000 encounters and… | ||
| AI as a tool for discovery in animal communication | Gašper Beguš | 53m |
Claims that sperm whale coda vowels exist and behave like human vowels, supported by a GAN-based artificial baby language learner that predicts spectral… | ||
| Bioacoustics and Machine Learning as Key Tools in Conservation | Kerry Dunleavy | 29m |
Conservation Metrics describes processing massive acoustic datasets — 26 terabytes, 21 million files from 1,600 locations — using cloud storage, a web labeling… | ||
| Evidence of social learning across symbolic cultural barriers in sperm whales | Giovanni Petri, Antonia Sayigh, Elisabetta Palazzi, Irene Lusseau, Olaf Boeldstedt, Tanya A. Hosack, Isabel Behncke Izzo, Shane Gero | 45m |
Analysis of inter‑click intervals tokenized into symbols builds variable-length Markov trees to compare repertoires from Dominica and the Pacific and finds… | ||
| Towards Foundation Models for Graphs | Michael Brontstein | 01h 03m |
Argues that general foundation models for graphs largely do not yet exist but shows two concrete prototypes: ULTRA builds a graph of relations and enforces… | ||
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